Sight and Sound

Cannes: All that glitters : Nick James, Kieron Corless and Geoff Andrew assess the highs and lows of this year’s festival PLUS Clio arnard on the thrill of screening her film The Selfish Giant in Directors’ Fortnight = 20 REGULARS Editorial Any size that fits = 5 Rushes Pasquale lannone previews the Edinburgh International Film Festival = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on sinister uses of the pillowcase = 8 The Five Key...: Harryhausen creations = 9 First Sight: Samuel Wigley talks to Gilles Bourdos about his drama Renoir = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins crosses into a new world at the Cannes Film Festival = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Summer in Februanfs 18-year journey to the screen = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on an unusual new release strategy for Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts examines the ailing market for specialised distributors = 16 Geoffrey Macnab on the battle to retain Europe’s cultural exception = 19 Wide Angle John Beagles reports from Oberhausen = 52 Kieron Corless finds Indie Lisboa thriving despite chilly financial times = 55 Soundings: Stuart Heaney on Popol Vuh’s score for Aguirre, Wrath of God = 56 Primal Screen: Mark Le Fanu reassesses silent-movie acting = 57 Vlastimir Sudar celebrates the career of Serbian filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik = 59 Letters = 111 Endings : Brad Stevens on Journey to Italy = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Passing through : Reuniting Celine and Jesse after their tantalising encounters in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Before idnight ompletes a unique portrait of a relationship. Director Richard Linklater talks to Philip Horne = 30 Build my gallows high : In The Act of Killing the perpetrators of the massacres of millions of Indonesians re-enact their own crimes with extraordinary results. Director Joshua Oppenheimer talks to Nick Bradshaw = 36 Unspoken truths : Despite the sensationalist potential of its Tokyo vice setting, Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love is as rich in ambiguity as the director’s great Iranian films. He talks to Geoff Andrew = 40 Solitary sisters : The films of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl have always divided viewers. His new Paradise trilogy - in which three linked heroines search for different forms of salvation - is no exception. He talks to Richard Porton = 44 This spectred isle : Set during the Civil War, Ben Wheatley’s A Field in Englandbelongs to a rich and varied tradition of British films that tap into the mysteries, magic and dark forces of our countryside, says Kim Newman= 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH Behind the Candelabra = 62 The Bling Ring = 64 The Great Gatsby = 66 Much Ado About Nothing = 68 FILMS The Act of Killing = 70 Before Midnight = 71 Bula Quo! = 72 The Call = 72 Chasing Mavericks = 73 The East = 73 Epic = 74 Fast & Furious 6 = 74 A Field in England = 74 The Hangover Part III = 75 I Am Breathing = 76 lAmNasrine = 76 I Want Your Love = 77 Like Someone in Love = 78 The Moth Diaries = 79 Out in the Dark/Alata = 79 Pain S Gain = 80 Paradise: Faith/Paradies Glaube = 81 Paradise: Love/Paradies Liebe = 82 Renoir = 83 The Seasoning House = 84 Shun Li and the Poet/Io sono Li = 84 Stand Up Guys = 85 Star Trek Into Darkness = 86 Stories We Tell = 87 Stuck in Love = 88 Summer in February = 88 This Is the End = 89 Tropicalia = 90 The Wall/Die Wand = 90 The Words = 91 009 Re:Cyborg = 92 HOME CINEMA Films by Mario Bava, Films by Tinto Brass, China Gate, Films by Delmer Daves, The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection, Forbidden Hollywood Volume 7, French Masterworks: Russian Emigres in Paris 1923- 1929, The Great Gatsby, The House in Nightmare Parle, Knightriders, Masala Kobayashi Against the System, A Man Vanishes + Imamura Shohei Documentaries, Richard III, Vito = 96 DVD features Jonathan Romney welcomes a box-set of the work of comic master Pierre Etaix = 94 Philip Kemp reappraises the last surviving works of Yamanaka Sadao = 98 Television : Journeyman, The Liver Birds, Veep = 103 BOOKS Kim Newman rounds up three Peter Cushing-related publications for the actor’s centenary = 104 Sophie Mayer relishes the writings that defined New Queer Cinema = 105 Jane Giles enjoys the gossipy memoirs of fan turned filmmaker Curtis Harrington = 106

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